You missed: - Wifi - the heart-lung machine - the artificial kidney - the marines - the firehose - the speed camera (not invented for speeding tickets, by the way) - the cassette tape - the legal entity - the stock exchange - the four wheel drive - the orange carrot ….. to name a few 😉
About the CD: the hole in the middle of a CD is the exact same size as a Dutch dubbeltje (0.10 guilders). What the designers of the CD basically did was say "the hole must be about this big", and they had a dubbeltje to hand, so they used that. What I find really interesting is that the dubbeltje is no longer in use, since we now have the Euro. But its shadow still remains, in the form of the hole in CDs, DVDs and Blu ray discs.
STOP IT!!! Is this true! How crazy! I've obviously never seen one but this blows my mind that there is a secret permanent mark left on the CD. Not to mention alllllll the CD and DVD players around the world that were made to fit for a dutch dubbeltje haha So glad you shared this!
@@Pfooh Get out! hahaha I love how these important objects were just based off things lying around haha..."how big should we make it?"...."what about this big" (dutchman holding beer coaster) I'm thoroughly impressed by this fact
Philips was a great company socially too. Especially before WWII when that was not so common. Great pay, housing, sports clubs, pension plans and time off for it's workers, often people from the empoverished Drenthe province. I don't know if they still have, but the company also paid a subsidy to the kids of employees for higher education until at least the 90's.
One reason the Dutch were so inventive were universities. After the siege of Leiden was broken, one day and 447 years ago, the Prince of Orange asked the citizens to choose a reward for their bravery: either a tax-free market, or a university. They chose the later, knowing that taxation comes and goes, but knowledge lasts longer.
@@korenn9381 The Dutch are even more penny-pinching then others... And that is exactly why it is true: To get more money then others, we need to outsmart them. Plan ahead, invest, ?????, profit. Guys building ships gained nothing but expenses and risks, untill the ships returned from Indonesia, laden with spices and other goodies. The guy buying three tulip bulbs sold his whole house just to buy those three bulbs, and had no place to live... Untill he sold them with profit. Also a reminder: the mayor of Leiden had just a few weeks before, during the siege, offered his sword to the citizens who wanted to surrender because they were starving, saying: take my sword, and cut up my body, and distrubute it among you, so that it might feed you. He might just have been a bit beyond common greed....
As a (former) Canadian, having lived in the Netherlands for over 20 years, I'm (still) learning about this place.. ..from an Australian. The Universe has a great sense of humor! 🙃👍
@@voornaam3191 how did you get to drugs and plutonium? I guess I have not yet grasped the essence of some Dutch humor. 🤪 If with the bikini girls you are referring to what I remember as the Bavaria babes I have to say, that was epically brilliant!
Indeed, very good! Just a little more practice needed for Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek ;-) The 'eeuw' in leeuw, schreeuw sounds completely different from the 'eu' in kleur, scheur (which sounds a bit like the 'ö' in the German for leeuw, Löwe)
Duh.. Sometimes I hear people talking Dutch in movies and it sounds nothing like Dutch. Also funny, people think we are Deutch, but no we're dutch. Germany and the Netherlands are totally not the same.
@@d3al3rplays68 used to be "Dietschen bloed" which is where both the word Dutch and Deutch are derived from. It's bassicly the whole eastern Netherlands and northwestern germani, the people who speak low german, "Nedersaksisch" in dutch.
An underestimated invention was the saw mill, even in the Netherlands. At the heart of that machine was a shaft called the crankshaft. Invented by Cornelis Corneliszoon from Uitgeest. The sawmill was one of the contributors to the Dutch Golden Age, enabling us to build ships way faster than our neighbours.
My name is Cornelis and living about 10 km from Uitgeest in Heemskerk, there is a small memory park named after him in Uitgeest what he did was using a mill and put the energy to a horizontal and vertical movement at the same time by crankshafts and combined these. So instead of sawing a tree in planks in two days by hand they invented the industrial way and sawing the same amout in half an hour. Sorry, for my language as a dutchman. gr
The saw mill and the fluyt (ship type) are the most underrated inventions and most overlooked drivers behind the Dutch golden age. The fluyt was revolutionary as it was a completely commercial design. Rival design could be converted to warships if so required. The fluyt couldn't be effectively armed, but it could require twice the cargo with half the personnel. In combination with saw mill this made it possible the Netherlands had a merchant navy larger that English and Frech ones combined, despite being a much smaller country.
Well that went from "things that you probably use every single day that you had no idea were invented by the dutch" to submarines pretty quick lol I dunno about you but I only use my submarine on special occasions! :D
When I studied in Eindhoven, one of my teachers was one of the engineers that worked on the development of the CD. Later when I started to work I worked for a company that used to be part of AT&T and there I met the inventor of WiFi. I learnt a great deal from these people. they also were masters in explaining the technology.
How about Christiaan Huygens (yes, the guy the space probe was named after)? He invented the pendulum clock (1656). Not the clock itself, but the pendulum which made clocks far more accurate.
Artificial heart, Wi-fi, the compact cassette, Blu-Ray, cartography (Mercator-projection and the first true atlas of the world by Ortelius), shares and the stock exchange, capitalism, donuts, golf (the sport), lots of ship types and the concept of a national anthem
The concept of a national anthem? The Wilhelmus is very old (might be the oldest song currently in use as a national anthem), but the Netherlands was actually quite late to the party when it came to national anthems.
The Mercator projection is arguably more Belgian than Dutch. It was invented by Flemish cartographer Mercator in 1569, which is about the start of the 80 years war. Flanders was at the time part of the Spanish/Habsburg Netherlands, hence why it is often referred to as Dutch. However the current country of the Netherlands is of course very different from the Habsburg Netherlands of the time. Oh, and to confuse matters further, when he actually invented the Mercator projection he was actually living in Duisburg, present day Germany.
The artificial kidney is also a Dutch invention. Wikipedia The first successful artificial kidney was developed by Willem Kolff in the Netherlands during the early 1940s. Kolff was the first to construct a working dialyzer in 1943.
true, but because of the lack of funding by the government here in Holland lots of great minds went to the US of A where they got lots of funding so the artificial kidney was perfected in the States....
Anders Celcius was from Sweden, born in the early 1700s and the reason most people changed to C instead of F is because it is a decimal system, like centimeters and grams for length and weight.
Actually, Fahrenheit was first in developing the thermometer. He used a system based on human body temperature but since this is not always accurate, they switched to the easier system of Celsius (based on freezing point and boiling point of water).
The Snorkel was invented by the Dutch. It is an installation which allows Diesel/electric submarines to "breath" under water while still using the diesel engine. The Germans used it extensively at the end of WW2 And as far as I know the Dutch (Philips again) also invented the electric razor.
New York is also a Dutch invention. Started out as Nieuw Amsterdam but was later traded with the English for Suriname. And even today New York and Amsterdam are culturally more alike than New York and any other city in the US.
That's right. But actually Celsius was chosen as the SI unit for temperature. It was far more logical to use 0 degree for freezing water and 100 degrees for boiling water. The question should be: why didn't the Americans choose Celsius.
@@mauricevandelogt7554 actually the English went for the Fahrenheit system (the USA did not exist then) but the rest of Europe went for Celsius that matched more with the metric system. A system of 10ths works for most of the world perfectly but the Americans prefer the system of miles, feet, yards, stones etc.. So I guess that Fahrenheit just fits in their imperial system. Ow and Celsius was a Swedish dude and at first 100 degrees was freezing water and 0 was boiling but somehow the f*cked up and swapped it.
Gabriel Fahrenheit was born in Danzig in a former part of Germany (now Gdansk) and for that was not Polish but German. He came to the Netherlands at an early age, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit
Roads which absorb water. I live in the border with Germany and very close to Belgium also. Often rain, and in this weather in a speed 130km/h you immediately can see the difference
Yep, the surfacing is called ZOAB (Zeer Open Asfalt Beton). There were several versions of it, and the most recent is of course better. It is more absorbent and quieter. Well, it’s not exactly absorbent, but it allows water to flow away easily.
my father was in the top 12 at Philips in Eindhoven where I grew up till I moved to New Zealand, at 23. Philips gets 1% for every CD sold. The one thing they couldn't perfect was cassette tapes; they bought German basff tapes, took the label off and put Philips on there. :)
GPS is also hugely contributed to by the Dutch :) But also in the spectrum of the CD and DVD, but waaaaay earlier, philips invented the Beeldplaat, which is basically an LP with a short movie clip on it back in 1977 !! *insert mind blown emoji* Also, the Dutch invented the Stock market.
In 1990 our NLR tested the GPS system. The father of my girlfriend drove a cheap Russian Lada (or Zyiguly) and he had a US military GPS installed on his dashboard. For his work. It was kind of secret, what exactly they did. Don't know. Today there are far more satellites, and we ALL have that military precision. But this test proves your statement. The Dutch were involved in developing GPS.
When the stock market was invented Belgium and the Netherlands were both part of the Spanish Netherlands. The first stock exchange was in Bruges , Belgium. The first stock exchange that was in a purpuse built building was in Antwerp, also in Belgium.
@@voornaam3191 It's not that there are more satellites (which helps to be more accurate all the time), it was about the pie-code (as in 3,14159). The military was using all of the capabilities of GPS while civillians only used a watered-down system. In the 90's, the USA released the pie-code and now everybody had access to accurate GPS.
The "Beeldplaat" or "LaserDisc" first came on the market in 1978 (also known as "Discovision", "Optical Videodisc System" and "Laser Optical Videodisc" ) and only came out in the USA, but it was a big flop. I saw a demonstration of such an appliance in Brussels back then, with a videorecording of an Abba concert. It had the size of an LP, but used much of the technology of the CD (that only came out a year later). The LaserDisc was analogue though, while the CD was digital.
@@tomvanlint6694 Not really a flop. It's been quite popular in the US and in Japan. In Europe it wasn't successful and we were having all the fun with VHS (from JVC) since we loved recording (which was VERY expensive on Laserdisc).
First Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), first multinational (VOC), firehose (van der Heijden), four wheel drive (Spijker), cassette tape (Philips), speed camera (Gatsonides), WiFi (Hayes), gin/jenever
Hi, I know a few others: - the predecessor of modern firehose: Jan van der Heijden in Amsterdam, 1603 - 4 wheel propulsion and the 6-cylinder motor in 1903 by Spyker. The 4 wheel propulsion was used in his Spyker 60 HP racer. - a controversial device, measuring car speeding: de 'Flitspaal' by Gatsonides - Phillips also invented the cassette recorder and tape in 1902 - wifi is an invention of Victor Hayes a Dutch engineer in 1997 - the stock market by the VOC
Thank you Casey for making me love my own country a lot more. I never knew how many things are just Dutch culture and your videos really have made me super happy to be born here. Thk you so much! Love your videos.
The Netherlands is still basically a republic with one family providing a president without powers. Koningin Beatrix had de huidige kabinetsformatie een kolfje naar haar hand gevonden maar Alex met de baard staat er voor spek en bonen bij. Koning Mark IV de Leugenaar komt eraan en da's een heel ander verhaal. Da's geen president zonder macht maar een gozer met veel te veel macht.
@@amoswittenbergsmusings But still nothing compared to the US President, who can be an almighty dictator for four years. And it's almost impossible to get rid of him, even with prove of crimes.
@@blindbrick He met his Waterloo! And Willem II lost all his power to prevent a revolution in 1848, making the country a republic again in all but name.
The Constant Variable Transmission (CVT) often found in smaller cars, scooters, snowmobiles etc. The world's first commercially available home Video Game console, the Philips Odyssey And not just the CD, but the audio casette tape as well.
@@HugoBooy Shortly explained yeah. Actually the last generation developed by Toyota (not Dutch) has a launch gear for fuel efficiency and improved durability of the system. Leaving quality improvement to them it’s probably fine. I did not get to drive and try one yet. Watch how it functions on this fine medium. Take care and enjoy 💪
I have to jump in on the Odyssey, that was solely Magnavox who was merged with Philips a few years later. The second game system from Magnavox, the Magnavox Odyssey 2 (again, only invented by Magnavox) was sold as the Philips Videopac G7000 in Europe (and a few other names). However, apart from renaming it, Philips really didn't do anything for that. The Magnavox Odyssee was indeed a first, namely the first console with changeable games (different versions of pong). It didn't have a CPU yet. The first CPU gameconsole was the Fairchild Channel-F followed quickly with the Atari VCS and then the Philips Videopac G7000 / Magnavox Odyssee 2. Other fact, Philips had a patent for showing a computer generated image controlled by a joystick. So, every game console existing in the 70s and 80s had to pay a fee to Philips. The most commonly used audio cassette is indeed invented by Philips, but there were more formats who weren't as successful. Another Philips invention is the interactive part of Netflix and before that, the menu's on DVD/Bluray. That actually dates back to Philips CD-i which was the first having the interactive part. Some say Philips invented the term Interactive (because of CD-i).
The 0 Farhenheit was the lowest temperature we were able to reach at the point, when they sprinkled salt on ice, forcing it to melt, substracting heat from the surroundings. Kinda like Kelvin, who uses the ultimate low temperature (minus 273 Celsius) as their zero. Edit: In case Kevin does not reply: Zero degrees Fahrenheit is around minus 18 degrees Celsius. Just looked it up, while the lowest temperature measured in The Netherlands is minus 27.4 degrees Celsius, this was in 1942, so neither recently nor regularly. Either way, when I said ' able to reach' I meant under controlled, reproduceable circumstances. After all, we are talking about science here.
If you want to talk about current leading technologies: There is only one word to remember "Lithography (euv)" and the company ASML (founded by Philips) Their technology is used to create chips, found in almost all modern devices of today.
ASML uses an American invention for their lithography. Oddly enough they are good at making money of someone elses invention. But also pretty bad at earning money with their own inventions (the CD comes to mind).
The reason most of the world are using Celsius nowadays is just that it simply makes more sense and is used in any science profession including the ones in the US. Basically without knowing the scale, you can easily calculate in celsius as 0 degrees is the temperature (under perfect circumstances) where water will freeze, and 100 degrees is the temperature (under perfect circumstances) is the temperature where water boils. The even more scientific approach is using K (kelvin), but this is the same scale as Celsius only starting at -273 C so water freezes at 273 K and boils at 373 K which calculating from Kelvin to Fahrenheit is just not that simple or from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
The bottle scraper or 'de flessenlikker of flessenschraper' in Dutch. A device to scrape the last thick liquid out of a bottle. Invented bij Harrie van Kempen. He worked for the Dutch company Tijger plastics.
A very important invention by the dutch was the crankshaft. This allowed back in the days a far quicker production of timber by wind and water driven sawmills to allow faster wooden shipbuilding and gain a big advantage over the Brittisch fleet and build quicker and more merchant ships. This invention can be seen as the start of the industrial revolution as it was also used in other mils to increase production.
I love these videos you make about my own country. As a Dutchman it gives me insights in how different ways this country can be seen. And I am HIGHLY interested in seeing a video on future technologies, so please do make that. :)
Stockmarket is also dutch, marine corps (zeesoldaten), the biggest invention is how to become the 2nd foodproducer in the world for such a small country.
Actually, we were the fifth country to have a dedicated naval infantry unit: Spain (1537), Portugal (1610), France (1622) and the UK (1664) preceded us Dutchies (1665).
@@Tiger313NL Not sure and don't feel like researching now but I think there was a (good)reason for this "misconception", something we did to the function or structure of the marines that revolutionized them or something along those lines. But let's face it, putting soldiers on ships is as old as ships themselves so it's probably a case of perspective and exact definition of "marine core".. Now don't quote me on any of this!
@@Tiger313NL You forgot the Danish. Before the the Dutch marines were first deployed, their leaders went to Denmark to learn more about assaulting a beach/fort by way of sea. Before that, soldiers would disembark, become a regular army and then attack. On the Medway marines attacked from the ships.
The Celsius scale is part of the SI system, that's why we do not use Fahrenheit anymore. And it feels more natural, below 0'C the roads get slippery, and rain becomes snow. So every - temperature sounds icy. Everyone knows what boiling water is, at 100'C, whether you cook potatoes or make tea.
commenting again because I felt like I had to add: [citation needed tho][it's been too long since I had this class] The Dutch overall have always owed a lot of success to the pursuit of science. which likely started with our so-called 'golden' age. The Economic success that the country enjoyed in those years was due to a multitude of reasons- (re; imperialism, infant capitalism) But notably many neighboring countries were tied up in various disputes, wars, religious pursuits- which made them poor competitors on a number of these fields, science very much included. Few of these countries were safe to publish in at the time, so a significant number of scientifically minded people would migrate to the Netherlands to freely publish their works there. An echo of this can be observed through the Dutch relationship with the Japanese, who were happy to trade for once now that the foreigners weren't attempting to sell them religion all the time. There's many ways to interpret this kind of history, to whichever degree any of this was motivated by money, or tolerance- Personally I hope that this Dutch story demonstrates the strength that lies in foreign ties, and in what ways they might reward you when you're not being as much of an ass (at least on some fronts, clearly the dutch werent as interested in the ideas and thought of many of the other countries they exploited)
It started long before the Golden Age. Technology was a trade mark for Flanders and Brabant with high production both in quality and quantity. Because of the war, the center of economy shifted slowly to the North.
@@dutchman7623 Ah thank you for this addition! I did learn that trade shifted northwards after the blockade of Antwerp but I didn't realize that this would've driven the technologically-minded north too
@@Sanischan The entire upper class fled the war zone, some to France or Germany, but most to the areas that were already liberated. Not with the intention to stay, but to be safe, but the war lasted three generations. The last generation did feel at home and stayed. Upper class could effort to flee, they could build a house in the overcrowded towns, poor people would become homeless. Dordrecht was the biggest city in Holland, but soon Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Delft, Alkmaar, and Gouda were all bigger. And they carefully pickrd the town to move to, painters and cloth weavers went to Leiden, merchants to Amsterdam, potters to Delft, candle makers and cheese makers to Gouda, jurists and scientific educated to Haarlem which was the regional capital. Over a million people left Flanders, Brabant, Limburg and Luik. From the noble families, only a single caretaker stayed in the war zone, all others moved away. They sold everything and arrived in Holland with money to invest and above all knowledge. And it wasn't about religion, in my family a rich calvinistic protestant lady became the godmother to a catholic baptized child of the caretaker in the south. They went to the protestant church whem they were in Holland and during visits to Brabant they went to the catholic church.
If you can get a hold of a “dubbeltje” aka ten gulden cents, try fitting it in a CD or DVD hole. It’s not a coincidence that it will perfectly fit the hole. Yes, Philips.
I would defintly wanna see that follow-up video you mentioned in the end... Btw, as someone who is Dutch and also studeis Biology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is well known to biologists as well as medicains worldwide as being the Father of microbiology, and that is kind of a big deal, because microbiology is a very big field. It is sometimes claimed that a Dutch person was responsible for inventing Wifi... Allthough from what I heard it's a bit weak of a connection. From what I remember it was more of a collaborative effort of multiple nationalities, and that at the time the Wifi project was completed, it was a Dutch researcher who was heading the project.. I'm not sure, you'd have to look it up. I think there are also other nationalities that claim the invention, so probably not the best example, but putting it out there nonetheless. Other claims I've heard is the invention of the bank, and the invention of the speedbump, but again, I'm not sure. Not sure if it's an invention, but the first ever Planetarium ever constucted was by a man from Franeker in Friesland (and it's still there btw). Not Fries myself, but I did visit it once, and it is honesty kind of a suprise that this is not more well known, because it genuienly is pretty mindblowing to think that he constructed it in is own house by himself with the technology that was avaiable back then.
There is a hostpital in Amsterdam that is called: Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek-hospital. It's specialized in the diagnosis, treatment and scientific research of cancer.
Yup. Look at how the Dutch have been creating and building land from the water .... the province of Flevoland is the *largest* land reclamation project in history. Then, talk about WI-FI, semi-conductor chips and building the largest lock complexes in the world at Terneuzen and IJsselmuiden.
The Celcius scale was invented by Anders Celsius from Sweden - but he did it the other way around 100C for the freezing point of water and 0C for the boiling temperature. The scale was "turned around" by Carl von Linne - the change was made after the death of Anders Celcius. Centigrade or Celsius became the norm because it sub-divided the temperature between freezing and boiling water in 100 pieces (centi-grade)
Well then: the temperature points you mention are exactly 0 and 100 degrees celsius, which is named after a Swedish inventor, Anders Celsius. The Fahrenheit scale actually uses the human body temperature at 100F and the freezing point of some crazy concoction thrown together by our man Fahrenheit. Or so says Wiki. (the term centigrade was used briefly and stems from the word for one hundred (centum/centi) and 'steps' (gradus/grade). Which is the term used by Americans until this day, but the official term is Celsius, since 1948. Again according to Wiki. We use Celsius because that is what the SI metric system uses globally.
@@annaaquitaine4225 When referring to temperature in the Celsius scale, Americans say "Centigrade." Of course most Americans (except in science) use Fahrenheit.
@@OverMotoren No, you were correct in the specific sense that when referring to the Celsius system, Americans say "Centigrade." The catch being that most Americans use Fahrenheit.
Some other interesting Dutch inventions (source: Wikipedia): - Kolf (the forerunner of golf as we know it today) (13th century) - Figure skating and speed skating (15th -17th century) - Magic lantern (first practical image projector; the forerunner of modern slide projector) (1659) - First country to use a National Anthem (16th century) - The Olympic Flame (early 20th century) - Meat slicer (1898) - Yacht (1580s)
Oh Nijntje brings back memories. My mom has all the Dutch Nijntje books and read them to me and my siblings when we were young. Haven't heard or read them in 35 years or so but remember that Nijntje in de speeltuin was my favorite. Op een dag zei vader Pluis wij gaan met kleine Nijn, een dagje naar de speeltuin toe hoi-hoi, riep Nijn, wat fijn. Ze gingen met de auto want de speeltuin was heel ver maar na een uur zei vader pluis ziezo nu zijn wij er.
Hi Casey. Even being Dutch myself, I didn't know that some of the things you mentioned, were actually Dutch inventions. So thank you for setting me straight! Now as for your Celsius/Fahrenheit question. Unlike the Fahrenheit temperature scale, the Celsius scale is perfectly integrated and defined in the SI System of Units (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units), which has many advantages over the Imperial system that basically only the Americans still use.Actually, I must correct myself, and say that Kelvin is the SI temperature scale, not Celsius. However, converting between these two scales is just a matter of adding/subtracting a fixed number. Like most of the non-American world, we Dutch adopted the SI system, and thereby the Kelvin/Celsius scale. It seemed to make sense at the time Let Daniel Fahrenheit be damned :)
Fahrenheit used a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride to get his 'zero degree' point and the human body temperature as his '100 degree' point, and divided that in 100 equal units. Celcius(Sweden) use water/ice mixture for zero degree point and boiling water as 100 degree point and divided that in 100 equal units. The Kelvin scale (using the absolute zero - coldest possible as zero degrees but using the Celsius division making for example 20 degrees difference in Kelvin equal to 20 degrees difference in Celcius.
Together with the Lombards, who were present in the Low Countries since AD 1000. And the Giro system to transfer money in value without transporting coins or paper money.
the kaasschaaf wasn't a dutch invention and it's a tragedy. i think we switched to celsius. because it's a better system. not by decree. unlike metric which was Napoleonic in origin, was deleted out of hatred for the french, then reinstated because it's kinda useful by Willem 3.
The cassette (cassettebandje) was also an invention by Philips! Also, the size of the cd was determined by Beethoven, because someone who helped develop it wanted the cd to be able to have Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc
Another Dutch invention that is convenient and used often: the automatic gas pump nozzle stop when fueling up at the gas station. Besides Bluetooth also WiFi is a Dutch invention. Not only the CD and DVD, but also the music cassettes and electric razor where invented by Philips. Four-wheel drive in cars and speed camera’s to catch those cars speeding are Dutch inventions as well, the modern asphalt on the roads is one too. The most used program language in computers “Python” is another great one.
I love to see a video about the research done nowadays. The stock exchange Oranje carrots Something with chocolate, very important for the taste but I forget what it exactly was. The fire hose Multinational (the VOC) Gin Four wheel drive. The Dutch are good in applied science. The best example is Jan Tinbergen, he got the Nobel price for his statistical macro economic model. The theory behind the model came from Keynes, who was shocked that Jan started to use the model in real life. It’s now used by every country. The Netherlands are still the only country in the world were you can study econometrics.
The process of getting cacoa powder out of the plant was a Dutch invention. They proceeded to make the first chocolate bar, but not as we know it today. The British then pretty much added sugar to the mix and changed the process of making the bars and those bars were pretty much the same a nowadays. But it all started with the dutch invention
Chocolate? Wasn't it Van Houten who invented to fermentate the cocoa? That is the most fundamental step in making chocolate. If you don't do that, nothing happens.
When you are curious to learn even more: "older" dutch streets for instance "Antony van Leeuwenhoeklaan" are named after people who did something worth mentioning. When curious: you can google some :). Not every street is named after an inventor though. And: Philips first factory for gloeilampen (light bulbs) is now the Philips Museum in Eindhoven.
Let me have a go at a long list of important ones: - Fire engine - Gas street lighting - Public Transport (tug boat) - Saw mill (of huge importance to Dutch 17th century dominance of European trade) - Pendulum clock - Internal combustion engine (concept, with gun powder and 17th century precision engineering) - Straight 6 engine, yes that's important for internal balance (Spyker) - Four wheel drive (Spyker) - CVT, the continuous variable transmission, still used today (DAF) - The interrupt machine gun to shoot through airplane propellors (Fokker) - The capacitator (Leiden Jar ) - De flessenlikker - Gibbing and on ship processing - Modern captialism (Central bank, public stock, stock exchange and a wide range of financial products - Microbiology (right after the microscope and also by Tony Lioncorner. - 'Modern' warfare, uniform weapons and clothes, drilling and trench warfare (Maurits of Nassau's military revolution) - Civil rights, religious tolerance, upward social mobility, rehabilitation - Women's voting rights (Friesland) - International and maritime law (Grotius) - The people's right to get rid of tyrants - National anthem, national flag - Orange carrot - Dutch auction - Speed camera - The sandwich - De appelboor - Science fiction - Marines (as in amphibious troops, not just soldiers on a ship) Funny, the Dutch have more automotive innovations than bicycle innovations. Can't think of even one.
Prins Maurits heeft ook een handje gehad in gerechtelijke moord - op Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt. En Willem III (King Billy for the Ulstermen) in de lynching van Johan en Cornelis de Witt.
This is great 'cause Im Dutch. And these invensions are pretty importand and groundbreaking ngl. Except for Nijntje which I knew was dutch, although I never expected it to be so well known in othe countries. It makes me feel so great, knowing that although being part of one of the smallest countries in the world, we still count.
We left the Fahrenheit temperature scale because there was another better and more logical system. We also adapt (and adopt) other systems very easily if we see a the benefit. In contrast to Americans who keep stoically using their their limp system, while the whole world is using another more logical system.
Yes, capitalism sucks. What is better, remains to be seen, but do study Germany. There, right and left wing have been working together pretty good. Right is bad, left is not good enough either, you need something in between. The German example is very very good. The Dutch come close, but those bloody stupid right extremes keep thinking they are Gods. Populists fuck their own country without seeing what they do.
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The automatic transmission for cars--still used in more than 65 cars; the snorkel for submarines (the dutch state was not interested, same for France, USA, GB) so the man sold it to germany; opium production (as payment for tea and spices) the use of windmills for paint production, as sawing mill, for grinding grains, as blacksmithing factory and more), the machine to produce "chips", the famous "stamppots"; most famous: boerenkool stampot, but also hete bliksem en hutspot; multiplication of tulip bulbs (and other bulbs) and I was made there....
We also brought technology and science to Japan and played a leading role in the US independence (among many other world changing things) but nobody gives us credit for those. Yup we are a underappreciated nation
Yes, The US's founders recognized and appreciated the Dutch Republic's political organization and emphasis on individual and collective liberty. Along with appreciating Iroquois balances of power and democratic ways. Dutch Republic was a big influence on the founding of the USA. Also, with more liberty and tolerance and freedom from monarchy than nearly anywhere else in the world in the 1600's, the Dutch Republic was inspirational for many in other countries.
@@bolandbert I am talking waaaay before that, when their country was closed. We were allowed to trade with them and we brought over tons of scientific books that allowed them to learn "modern sciences"
@@wayne6512 seeing as that was introduced in 1945, 139(officially 131) years after it was last part of our Kingdom and 14 years after they became a independent nation, I think I will not take credit for it no.
My grandpa worked at Philips. Also another relative worked there told me that they invented the dvd already in the 80's!!! But they didnt want to release those discs yet because they found it too soon after the videorecorder
Love the video, luckily by far most inventions I recognize as being Dutch or linked to Dutch ingenuity. What I really miss however, is the Dutch concept of controlling water. I think without a doubt, even before the Deltaworks started after the flooding in 1953, it's clear that the Dutch mastered the skill of winning land from the sea. Understanding and managing water should be in the top 5 of Dutch inventions. And so should other sea related activities be mentioned, offshore oil-winning, transportation systems, harbours, logistics as a concept. Might not all be purely Dutch inventions, but the Dutch laid a lot of ground work there and still do. Did you know it was Dutch ingenuity that cleared the Suez canal from that Ever Given containership that got stuck?
And the CVT, first with rubber braces later perfected with a steel band. DAF still keeps (in their save) a CVT steel band that has more than a million km's driven at a test.
The CD was ment to be smaller but a manager from Sony onley wanted to work with Philips if his favorit music piece could fit on the disc. And Miffy sounds a bit naughty to me.
@@corneliusantonius3108 you are right, the CD was meant to be 10cm to contain about one hour. The romantic story is that a Sony executive wanted the 9th of Beethoven (74min) to fit and demanded enlarging to 12cm for Sony to back the format. The more realistic story is that Sony knew Philips had already set up a CD production line based on 10cm and wanted to win some catching up time, by Philips having to redevelop/manufacture the CD-productionline.
Celsius was 'discovered' by the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. In this system water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. Besides the US the UK still uses Fahrenheit, but this is becoming less often. You do hear weathermen saying 12 degrees Celsius to make it clear which scale is meant.
@@harveysmith100 Carrots yes but orange carrots did not exsist until the Dutch created them. It is the Dutch who made the carrots orange !!!!!! by inter mixing them so they became orange, as an honour to the Dutch Royal family (Van Oranje/From Orange)). And now whenever anyone on this entire planet thinks about a carrot they think about an orange one, a Dutch creation!!! Isn't that just bizarre?
The Dutch also invented the way to turn wind into a power to use. Of course they pumped the swamps empty with windmills, (go to Kinderdijk to see that today) but also famously used sawing mills to turn trees into planks used for building ships in the 17th century. This gave them a critical advantage in the number of ships they were able to build in a short time compared to other nations - specifically the British - sawing the planks by man power.
When I was growing up, Leeuwenhoek seemed really famous. People had no clue about the "animalcules" that surround us until Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see them. An American microbiologist of Dutch ancestry , Paul de Kruif, is famous for his 1926 book Microbe Hunters, which I checked out of a library in the 1950s. That must have been my introduction to Leeuwenhoek. The telescope did not reveal animals on the moon, but the microscope revealed an unknown world of miniature creatures.
I believe the Dutch had the first broadcast radio station too. On November 6, 1919 The first scheduled (pre-announced in the press) Dutch radio broadcast was made by Nederlandsche Radio Industrie station PCGG at The Hague, which began regular concerts broadcasts. This beats the Canadian station XWA (later CFCF) in Montreal began regular broadcasts on May 20, 1920.
Philips' first major invention was the cassette tape the compact music cassette, they shared the patent and every electronic company could make them. Their biggest mistake was the VCR a video recorder (cassette) that would play or record on 2 sides, they didn't share the patent and other companies made betamax (Sony) and VHS both only playable on 1 side. The Celsius temperature scale was invented by Anders Celsius from Sweden.
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek didn't invent the microscope. It already existed, what he did was perfect the lenses used in the microscope. He developed a technique to very precisely polish the lenses so they'd give way clearer views on the tiny things. His techniques were later also used to improve on the existing telescopes iirc. I believe his improvements in lens polishing are also what improved eyeglasses. Which weren't that good at the time.
@7:20 I'm sorry to break it to you, but the temperature scale related to the freezing point and boiling point of water is Celsius. 0 degrees and 100 degrees, respectively. What the Fahrenheit scale is related to, I couldn't tell you, because it doesn't make a lick of sense to me. I know, for a rough conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit you multiply by 2 and add 40, but why that is, I've no idea. As to why we switched to Celsius, I've no idea either, but I suspect it's something to do with better compatibility with the metric system, being based on a scale of 100 and multiples and fractions thereof.
Philips also invented the music cassette (at least the format/size that became most popular), and blu-ray. And the fact that virtually all carrots are orange is also due to Dutch chauvinism :) And I believe Python (the programming language) was developed by a Dutch guy. And Celcius was a Swede who came up with his own version of the temperature scale (around the middle of the 18th century, I think). Fahrenheit set his base (0 degrees) by putting his thermometer in a mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride (someone correct me if I’m wrong, I’m trying to remember this from a science class decades ago). He chose 32 (the melting point of ice) as his second measuring point, and his body temperature (96 degrees) was the next reference point. This way he could divide his “ruler” in half six times (between 32 and 96) and get intervals of 1 degree. Celcius just started a 0 when ice started to melt and set his 100 mark to the boiling point of water, so he just came up with a different scale.
Actually, Celcius defined 100 degrees to be the freezing point and 0 degrees to be the boiling point. The scale was reverse, to prevent minus numbers. He also called it a centigrade scale, not named after himself. Only after he died, the agency of standards chose his name out of a few comparable candidates who all had developed a similar scale, but Celcius had been the one who had developed the best means for defining the methods to determine the right temperature.
Hyperboloid shaped cooling towers can be found all over the world. The design was patented in 1918 to Frederik van Iterson and Gerard Kuypers of the Dutch States Mine (DSM). DSM still exist but is not state owned anymore and a multinational in bioscience, health and nutritions.
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You missed:
- Wifi
- the heart-lung machine
- the artificial kidney
- the marines
- the firehose
- the speed camera (not invented for speeding tickets, by the way)
- the cassette tape
- the legal entity
- the stock exchange
- the four wheel drive
- the orange carrot
….. to name a few 😉
You forgot ¨Swaffelen¨.
@@victorvintagefoto1991 🤣🤣
The Pace maker is an important one as well
And BVO´tje invented bij André Hazes.
I was surprised she didnt say wifi after saying bluetooth
About the CD: the hole in the middle of a CD is the exact same size as a Dutch dubbeltje (0.10 guilders). What the designers of the CD basically did was say "the hole must be about this big", and they had a dubbeltje to hand, so they used that. What I find really interesting is that the dubbeltje is no longer in use, since we now have the Euro. But its shadow still remains, in the form of the hole in CDs, DVDs and Blu ray discs.
STOP IT!!! Is this true! How crazy! I've obviously never seen one but this blows my mind that there is a secret permanent mark left on the CD. Not to mention alllllll the CD and DVD players around the world that were made to fit for a dutch dubbeltje haha So glad you shared this!
@@caseykilmore Not only is the hole the size of a dubbeltje, the CD itself is the size of the old (red) Heineken beer coaster.
@@Pfooh Get out! hahaha I love how these important objects were just based off things lying around haha..."how big should we make it?"...."what about this big" (dutchman holding beer coaster) I'm thoroughly impressed by this fact
Philips was a great company socially too. Especially before WWII when that was not so common. Great pay, housing, sports clubs, pension plans and time off for it's workers, often people from the empoverished Drenthe province.
I don't know if they still have, but the company also paid a subsidy to the kids of employees for higher education until at least the 90's.
I'm going to check that. I left over some guilders coins, including the 0.10 cent, or ''dubbeltje''
One reason the Dutch were so inventive were universities. After the siege of Leiden was broken, one day and 447 years ago, the Prince of Orange asked the citizens to choose a reward for their bravery: either a tax-free market, or a university. They chose the later, knowing that taxation comes and goes, but knowledge lasts longer.
That's a wonderful anecdote, but no way that was true: The dutch are just a self-centered as everyone else and would choose money every day ;)
Which was celebrated last Monday October 4th in Leiden.
Is that why it is called Leids ontzet?
@@leontewalvaart relief in Dutch is ontzet
@@korenn9381 The Dutch are even more penny-pinching then others... And that is exactly why it is true: To get more money then others, we need to outsmart them. Plan ahead, invest, ?????, profit. Guys building ships gained nothing but expenses and risks, untill the ships returned from Indonesia, laden with spices and other goodies. The guy buying three tulip bulbs sold his whole house just to buy those three bulbs, and had no place to live... Untill he sold them with profit.
Also a reminder: the mayor of Leiden had just a few weeks before, during the siege, offered his sword to the citizens who wanted to surrender because they were starving, saying: take my sword, and cut up my body, and distrubute it among you, so that it might feed you. He might just have been a bit beyond common greed....
As a (former) Canadian, having lived in the Netherlands for over 20 years, I'm (still) learning about this place..
..from an Australian.
The Universe has a great sense of humor! 🙃👍
Canada? To Australia? Are you involved in drugs? Or plutonium? That is Dutch humor! Ask the Bikini girls!
@@voornaam3191 how did you get to drugs and plutonium? I guess I have not yet grasped the essence of some Dutch humor. 🤪
If with the bikini girls you are referring to what I remember as the Bavaria babes I have to say, that was epically brilliant!
australia... i think you mean, new Holland......
@@voornaam3191 ben je Nederlands?
I have to say that hearing Dutch words with hardly an accent is really weird compared to the English with a strong accent. The contrast is remarkable.
Indeed, very good! Just a little more practice needed for Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek ;-) The 'eeuw' in leeuw, schreeuw sounds completely different from the 'eu' in kleur, scheur (which sounds a bit like the 'ö' in the German for leeuw, Löwe)
Duh.. Sometimes I hear people talking Dutch in movies and it sounds nothing like Dutch. Also funny, people think we are Deutch, but no we're dutch. Germany and the Netherlands are totally not the same.
@@fayefaye8490 But "Van Duitschen bloed"
@@d3al3rplays68 used to be "Dietschen bloed" which is where both the word Dutch and Deutch are derived from. It's bassicly the whole eastern Netherlands and northwestern germani, the people who speak low german, "Nedersaksisch" in dutch.
@@fayefaye8490 yep , the " bad guy " in Fallen , just before he was gassed.
It's pathetic.
An underestimated invention was the saw mill, even in the Netherlands. At the heart of that machine was a shaft called the crankshaft. Invented by Cornelis Corneliszoon from Uitgeest. The sawmill was one of the contributors to the Dutch Golden Age, enabling us to build ships way faster than our neighbours.
This! People really don’t know that we have the sawmill to thank for the Dutch golden age!
He only re-invented the crankshaft.
The chinese did invent this 200 BC.
My name is Cornelis and living about 10 km from Uitgeest in Heemskerk, there is a small memory park named after him in Uitgeest what he did was using a mill and put the energy to a horizontal and vertical movement at the same time by crankshafts and combined these. So instead of sawing a tree in planks in two days by hand they invented the industrial way and sawing the same amout in half an hour. Sorry, for my language as a dutchman. gr
Yes creoles, thank the sawmills for building the boats 🤔
The saw mill and the fluyt (ship type) are the most underrated inventions and most overlooked drivers behind the Dutch golden age. The fluyt was revolutionary as it was a completely commercial design. Rival design could be converted to warships if so required. The fluyt couldn't be effectively armed, but it could require twice the cargo with half the personnel. In combination with saw mill this made it possible the Netherlands had a merchant navy larger that English and Frech ones combined, despite being a much smaller country.
Well that went from "things that you probably use every single day that you had no idea were invented by the dutch" to submarines pretty quick lol
I dunno about you but I only use my submarine on special occasions! :D
Hahah only special occasions yes 😅
"I only use my submarine on special occasions!" My greased-up leathers on the other hand...
Hahaha 🤣
When I studied in Eindhoven, one of my teachers was one of the engineers that worked on the development of the CD. Later when I started to work I worked for a company that used to be part of AT&T and there I met the inventor of WiFi. I learnt a great deal from these people. they also were masters in explaining the technology.
How about Christiaan Huygens (yes, the guy the space probe was named after)? He invented the pendulum clock (1656). Not the clock itself, but the pendulum which made clocks far more accurate.
He also improved the telescope, to the point of seeing Saturn's rings clearly for the first time!
Artificial heart, Wi-fi, the compact cassette, Blu-Ray, cartography (Mercator-projection and the first true atlas of the world by Ortelius), shares and the stock exchange, capitalism, donuts, golf (the sport), lots of ship types and the concept of a national anthem
The concept of a national anthem? The Wilhelmus is very old (might be the oldest song currently in use as a national anthem), but the Netherlands was actually quite late to the party when it came to national anthems.
I know one: korfbal!
The Mercator projection is arguably more Belgian than Dutch. It was invented by Flemish cartographer Mercator in 1569, which is about the start of the 80 years war. Flanders was at the time part of the Spanish/Habsburg Netherlands, hence why it is often referred to as Dutch. However the current country of the Netherlands is of course very different from the Habsburg Netherlands of the time. Oh, and to confuse matters further, when he actually invented the Mercator projection he was actually living in Duisburg, present day Germany.
Shares and stock exchange originated from Bruges and not the NL ("beurs" comes from a flemish Huis ter Beurze in bruges)
Capitalism, the lending of money to be returned with interest, is waaaay older. It was actually outlawed by the ancient Jews/Hebrews.
De grootste uitvinding van Nederland is wel: Het Slap Ouwehoeren. (grap van Van Kooten en De Bie)
Tis wel zo
Peterrrr
The artificial kidney is also a Dutch invention.
Wikipedia
The first successful artificial kidney was developed by Willem Kolff in the Netherlands during the early 1940s. Kolff was the first to construct a working dialyzer in 1943.
true, but because of the lack of funding by the government here in Holland lots of great minds went to the US of A where they got lots of funding so the artificial kidney was perfected in the States....
Whats also cool is some concepts the Dutch “invented” like the stock exchange and the Marines.
The wheel. And fire of course. True. So true.
Anders Celcius was from Sweden, born in the early 1700s and the reason most people changed to C instead of F is because it is a decimal system, like centimeters and grams for length and weight.
Also, he used the value 0 for the temperature where water started freezing and 100 for boiling water. Which are easy figures to remeber.
Actually, Fahrenheit was first in developing the thermometer. He used a system based on human body temperature but since this is not always accurate, they switched to the easier system of Celsius (based on freezing point and boiling point of water).
"I'm not sure who invented Celsius...." Well, there's a clue in the name.
@@mloesb he actually set 0 for boiling water and 100 for freezing water so he did not have to work with negative values.they switched it later.
Fahrenheit is also a decimal system, just like Celsius.
It's just a different scale, based on different defining points.
The Snorkel was invented by the Dutch. It is an installation which allows Diesel/electric submarines to "breath" under water while still using the diesel engine.
The Germans used it extensively at the end of WW2
And as far as I know the Dutch (Philips again) also invented the electric razor.
Correct, I still have one from my grandad.
"Snorkel"! That makes sense. I don't know Dutch, but "snorkel" sounds Dutch, as in "snorfiets".
Electric razor with rotating blades; not the back and forth "chopping" blades!
They used the bicycle dynamo for the electric razor.😁
Snor @@DaveBasener1
New York is also a Dutch invention. Started out as Nieuw Amsterdam but was later traded with the English for Suriname. And even today New York and Amsterdam are culturally more alike than New York and any other city in the US.
We switched to Celcius because we are Dutch, not stupid. Just like with meters it makes way more sense.
hahahah this answer 😂
No wonder America still uses it lol.
@@fishy6744 absolutely true
That's right. But actually Celsius was chosen as the SI unit for temperature. It was far more logical to use 0 degree for freezing water and 100 degrees for boiling water.
The question should be: why didn't the Americans choose Celsius.
@@mauricevandelogt7554 actually the English went for the Fahrenheit system (the USA did not exist then) but the rest of Europe went for Celsius that matched more with the metric system. A system of 10ths works for most of the world perfectly but the Americans prefer the system of miles, feet, yards, stones etc.. So I guess that Fahrenheit just fits in their imperial system.
Ow and Celsius was a Swedish dude and at first 100 degrees was freezing water and 0 was boiling but somehow the f*cked up and swapped it.
The Nijntje-museum in Utrecht is a must-see when you have small children. We took our 1 year old last Saturday and he loved it!
And not just for children. When you grew up with Nijntje, it is amazing as an adult as well. Been there with my friends and we all loved it. ;D
Gabriel Fahrenheit was born in Danzig in a former part of Germany (now Gdansk) and for that was not Polish but German. He came to the Netherlands at an early age, see
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit
Roads which absorb water. I live in the border with Germany and very close to Belgium also. Often rain, and in this weather in a speed 130km/h you immediately can see the difference
Yep, the surfacing is called ZOAB (Zeer Open Asfalt Beton). There were several versions of it, and the most recent is of course better. It is more absorbent and quieter. Well, it’s not exactly absorbent, but it allows water to flow away easily.
@@maartenb100 ZOAB is a blessing.... until it starts to freeze!
my father was in the top 12 at Philips in Eindhoven where I grew up till I moved to New Zealand, at 23. Philips gets 1% for every CD sold. The one thing they couldn't perfect was cassette tapes; they bought German basff tapes, took the label off and put Philips on there. :)
GPS is also hugely contributed to by the Dutch :)
But also in the spectrum of the CD and DVD, but waaaaay earlier, philips invented the Beeldplaat, which is basically an LP with a short movie clip on it back in 1977 !! *insert mind blown emoji*
Also, the Dutch invented the Stock market.
In 1990 our NLR tested the GPS system. The father of my girlfriend drove a cheap Russian Lada (or Zyiguly) and he had a US military GPS installed on his dashboard. For his work. It was kind of secret, what exactly they did. Don't know. Today there are far more satellites, and we ALL have that military precision. But this test proves your statement. The Dutch were involved in developing GPS.
When the stock market was invented Belgium and the Netherlands were both part of the Spanish Netherlands. The first stock exchange was in Bruges , Belgium. The first stock exchange that was in a purpuse built building was in Antwerp, also in Belgium.
@@voornaam3191 It's not that there are more satellites (which helps to be more accurate all the time), it was about the pie-code (as in 3,14159). The military was using all of the capabilities of GPS while civillians only used a watered-down system. In the 90's, the USA released the pie-code and now everybody had access to accurate GPS.
The "Beeldplaat" or "LaserDisc" first came on the market in 1978 (also known as "Discovision", "Optical Videodisc System" and "Laser Optical Videodisc" ) and only came out in the USA, but it was a big flop. I saw a demonstration of such an appliance in Brussels back then, with a videorecording of an Abba concert.
It had the size of an LP, but used much of the technology of the CD (that only came out a year later).
The LaserDisc was analogue though, while the CD was digital.
@@tomvanlint6694 Not really a flop. It's been quite popular in the US and in Japan. In Europe it wasn't successful and we were having all the fun with VHS (from JVC) since we loved recording (which was VERY expensive on Laserdisc).
First Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), first multinational (VOC), firehose (van der Heijden), four wheel drive (Spijker), cassette tape (Philips), speed camera (Gatsonides), WiFi (Hayes), gin/jenever
and Cognac too
Hi, I know a few others:
- the predecessor of modern firehose: Jan van der Heijden in Amsterdam, 1603
- 4 wheel propulsion and the 6-cylinder motor in 1903 by Spyker. The 4 wheel propulsion was used in his Spyker 60 HP racer.
- a controversial device, measuring car speeding: de 'Flitspaal' by Gatsonides
- Phillips also invented the cassette recorder and tape in 1902
- wifi is an invention of Victor Hayes a Dutch engineer in 1997
- the stock market by the VOC
@@artisans8521 And the pendulum clock, the most precise time for centuries by Christiaan Huijgens.
@@artisans8521 But she said that one in her video
The 6 cylinder engine was not invented by Spyker or a Dutchman.
En wij in België hebben ook wel wat leuke uitvindingen gedaan zoals de sax, bakeliet enz.
Willem Einthoven. ECG machine and vectorizing the heart signals. (Nobel prize)
The list of Dutch Nobel prize winners is quite long for such a small country.
This is so cool! I’m Dutch but I never knew that all these things were invented by Dutch people
On a side note: Philips used to be known for their lights (and Hue to this day), but they also provide the lights that light the Eifel tower.
You missed sms (texting). Invented by a dutch IT firm to support early mobile phone operators. It grew massively beyond any expectation!
The landscape as main subject of a painting is also a Dutch invention, from around 1600.
Referred to as "The Dutch mountains" that is the cloud-formations these old master captured on canvas.
Thank you Casey for making me love my own country a lot more. I never knew how many things are just Dutch culture and your videos really have made me super happy to be born here. Thk you so much! Love your videos.
Keeping with the submarine theme, the snorkel what scuba divers use is also Dutch
Ahah. The first practical American submarine was developed by a Mr. Holland. He was probably Dutch ancestry.
Hi Casey, you mixed up the part of Fahrenheit en Celsius. Water boils at 100 degree C (212 F) en freezes at 0 degree C (32 F).
The Python programming language is a Dutch creation, it was written by Guido van Rossum.
The Dutch invented the modern republic state form, after which the USA was shaped.
The Netherlands is still basically a republic with one family providing a president without powers. Koningin Beatrix had de huidige kabinetsformatie een kolfje naar haar hand gevonden maar Alex met de baard staat er voor spek en bonen bij. Koning Mark IV de Leugenaar komt eraan en da's een heel ander verhaal. Da's geen president zonder macht maar een gozer met veel te veel macht.
@@amoswittenbergsmusings But still nothing compared to the US President, who can be an almighty dictator for four years. And it's almost impossible to get rid of him, even with prove of crimes.
@@dutchman7623 true enough.
And Napoleon off all people turned it in a monarchy.
@@blindbrick He met his Waterloo! And Willem II lost all his power to prevent a revolution in 1848, making the country a republic again in all but name.
The Constant Variable Transmission (CVT) often found in smaller cars, scooters, snowmobiles etc.
The world's first commercially available home Video Game console, the Philips Odyssey
And not just the CD, but the audio casette tape as well.
Yes, DAF's Variomatic is now called CVT (Het pientere pookje)
@@HugoBooy
They are two VERY different things.
They don’t share a single component!
@@touraneindanke You're right but it's the same principle
@@HugoBooy
Shortly explained yeah.
Actually the last generation developed by Toyota (not Dutch) has a launch gear for fuel efficiency and improved durability of the system.
Leaving quality improvement to them it’s probably fine.
I did not get to drive and try one yet.
Watch how it functions on this fine medium.
Take care and enjoy 💪
I have to jump in on the Odyssey, that was solely Magnavox who was merged with Philips a few years later. The second game system from Magnavox, the Magnavox Odyssey 2 (again, only invented by Magnavox) was sold as the Philips Videopac G7000 in Europe (and a few other names). However, apart from renaming it, Philips really didn't do anything for that. The Magnavox Odyssee was indeed a first, namely the first console with changeable games (different versions of pong). It didn't have a CPU yet. The first CPU gameconsole was the Fairchild Channel-F followed quickly with the Atari VCS and then the Philips Videopac G7000 / Magnavox Odyssee 2. Other fact, Philips had a patent for showing a computer generated image controlled by a joystick. So, every game console existing in the 70s and 80s had to pay a fee to Philips.
The most commonly used audio cassette is indeed invented by Philips, but there were more formats who weren't as successful. Another Philips invention is the interactive part of Netflix and before that, the menu's on DVD/Bluray. That actually dates back to Philips CD-i which was the first having the interactive part. Some say Philips invented the term Interactive (because of CD-i).
The 0 Farhenheit was the lowest temperature we were able to reach at the point, when they sprinkled salt on ice, forcing it to melt, substracting heat from the surroundings. Kinda like Kelvin, who uses the ultimate low temperature (minus 273 Celsius) as their zero.
Edit: In case Kevin does not reply: Zero degrees Fahrenheit is around minus 18 degrees Celsius. Just looked it up, while the lowest temperature measured in The Netherlands is minus 27.4 degrees Celsius, this was in 1942, so neither recently nor regularly. Either way, when I said ' able to reach' I meant under controlled, reproduceable circumstances. After all, we are talking about science here.
@@kevinvanlersberghe2320 Zero degrees Farenheit, how much is that in Celsius?
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 255,3722 degrees Kelvin (-17,77778 degrees Celsius if you must know)
If you want to talk about current leading technologies: There is only one word to remember "Lithography (euv)" and the company ASML (founded by Philips)
Their technology is used to create chips, found in almost all modern devices of today.
Very good call. Also, it is said that ASML is the most high-tech company in the world.
Coppert cress is doing well in the terms of inventions in the agricultural field.
Asml is if im right the only company able to make the machines that makes those chips
@@myancat yes, I believe that is correct.
ASML uses an American invention for their lithography. Oddly enough they are good at making money of someone elses invention. But also pretty bad at earning money with their own inventions (the CD comes to mind).
The reason most of the world are using Celsius nowadays is just that it simply makes more sense and is used in any science profession including the ones in the US. Basically without knowing the scale, you can easily calculate in celsius as 0 degrees is the temperature (under perfect circumstances) where water will freeze, and 100 degrees is the temperature (under perfect circumstances) is the temperature where water boils.
The even more scientific approach is using K (kelvin), but this is the same scale as Celsius only starting at -273 C so water freezes at 273 K and boils at 373 K which calculating from Kelvin to Fahrenheit is just not that simple or from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
Did you knew why most flags have these 3 colors: Red White and Blue?
The bottle scraper or 'de flessenlikker of flessenschraper' in Dutch. A device to scrape the last thick liquid out of a bottle. Invented bij Harrie van Kempen. He worked for the Dutch company Tijger plastics.
Ssssht that's one we do not want the world to know!
They already think we are cheap and then you tell them this? *smh*
A very important invention by the dutch was the crankshaft. This allowed back in the days a far quicker production of timber by wind and water driven sawmills to allow faster wooden shipbuilding and gain a big advantage over the Brittisch fleet and build quicker and more merchant ships. This invention can be seen as the start of the industrial revolution as it was also used in other mils to increase production.
Cornelis Corneliszoon was his name.
He re-invented it, like many things are invented long before we invented it.
Chinese also invented the crankshaft long before the Dutch did.
I searched it for you... the Chinese invented the crankshaft around 200 BC.
@@PieterPatrick ok, did not know that, thanks for the information. Learning is a good thing.
@@marvinhagen Well, Cornelis did invent the crankshaft, that is very true...
He just didn't know that it already existed. :-)
I love these videos you make about my own country. As a Dutchman it gives me insights in how different ways this country can be seen.
And I am HIGHLY interested in seeing a video on future technologies, so please do make that. :)
Stockmarket is also dutch, marine corps (zeesoldaten), the biggest invention is how to become the 2nd foodproducer in the world for such a small country.
Actually, we were the fifth country to have a dedicated naval infantry unit: Spain (1537), Portugal (1610), France (1622) and the UK (1664) preceded us Dutchies (1665).
@@Tiger313NL Not sure and don't feel like researching now but I think there was a (good)reason for this "misconception", something we did to the function or structure of the marines that revolutionized them or something along those lines. But let's face it, putting soldiers on ships is as old as ships themselves so it's probably a case of perspective and exact definition of "marine core"..
Now don't quote me on any of this!
@@Tiger313NL You forgot the Danish. Before the the Dutch marines were first deployed, their leaders went to Denmark to learn more about assaulting a beach/fort by way of sea. Before that, soldiers would disembark, become a regular army and then attack. On the Medway marines attacked from the ships.
Here I am, a Dutch person, learning about the Netherlands from an Australian.
I knew about some of it, but the majority was new to me.
Your Dutch pronunciation is really good!
The Celsius scale is part of the SI system, that's why we do not use Fahrenheit anymore.
And it feels more natural, below 0'C the roads get slippery, and rain becomes snow. So every - temperature sounds icy.
Everyone knows what boiling water is, at 100'C, whether you cook potatoes or make tea.
commenting again because I felt like I had to add:
[citation needed tho][it's been too long since I had this class] The Dutch overall have always owed a lot of success to the pursuit of science. which likely started with our so-called 'golden' age. The Economic success that the country enjoyed in those years was due to a multitude of reasons- (re; imperialism, infant capitalism) But notably many neighboring countries were tied up in various disputes, wars, religious pursuits- which made them poor competitors on a number of these fields, science very much included. Few of these countries were safe to publish in at the time, so a significant number of scientifically minded people would migrate to the Netherlands to freely publish their works there.
An echo of this can be observed through the Dutch relationship with the Japanese, who were happy to trade for once now that the foreigners weren't attempting to sell them religion all the time.
There's many ways to interpret this kind of history, to whichever degree any of this was motivated by money, or tolerance- Personally I hope that this Dutch story demonstrates the strength that lies in foreign ties, and in what ways they might reward you when you're not being as much of an ass (at least on some fronts, clearly the dutch werent as interested in the ideas and thought of many of the other countries they exploited)
It started long before the Golden Age. Technology was a trade mark for Flanders and Brabant with high production both in quality and quantity. Because of the war, the center of economy shifted slowly to the North.
@@dutchman7623 Ah thank you for this addition! I did learn that trade shifted northwards after the blockade of Antwerp but I didn't realize that this would've driven the technologically-minded north too
@@Sanischan The entire upper class fled the war zone, some to France or Germany, but most to the areas that were already liberated. Not with the intention to stay, but to be safe, but the war lasted three generations. The last generation did feel at home and stayed.
Upper class could effort to flee, they could build a house in the overcrowded towns, poor people would become homeless.
Dordrecht was the biggest city in Holland, but soon Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Delft, Alkmaar, and Gouda were all bigger.
And they carefully pickrd the town to move to, painters and cloth weavers went to Leiden, merchants to Amsterdam, potters to Delft, candle makers and cheese makers to Gouda, jurists and scientific educated to Haarlem which was the regional capital. Over a million people left Flanders, Brabant, Limburg and Luik.
From the noble families, only a single caretaker stayed in the war zone, all others moved away. They sold everything and arrived in Holland with money to invest and above all knowledge.
And it wasn't about religion, in my family a rich calvinistic protestant lady became the godmother to a catholic baptized child of the caretaker in the south. They went to the protestant church whem they were in Holland and during visits to Brabant they went to the catholic church.
If you can get a hold of a “dubbeltje” aka ten gulden cents, try fitting it in a CD or DVD hole. It’s not a coincidence that it will perfectly fit the hole. Yes, Philips.
I would defintly wanna see that follow-up video you mentioned in the end...
Btw, as someone who is Dutch and also studeis Biology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is well known to biologists as well as medicains worldwide as being the Father of microbiology, and that is kind of a big deal, because microbiology is a very big field.
It is sometimes claimed that a Dutch person was responsible for inventing Wifi... Allthough from what I heard it's a bit weak of a connection. From what I remember it was more of a collaborative effort of multiple nationalities, and that at the time the Wifi project was completed, it was a Dutch researcher who was heading the project.. I'm not sure, you'd have to look it up. I think there are also other nationalities that claim the invention, so probably not the best example, but putting it out there nonetheless.
Other claims I've heard is the invention of the bank, and the invention of the speedbump, but again, I'm not sure.
Not sure if it's an invention, but the first ever Planetarium ever constucted was by a man from Franeker in Friesland (and it's still there btw). Not Fries myself, but I did visit it once, and it is honesty kind of a suprise that this is not more well known, because it genuienly is pretty mindblowing to think that he constructed it in is own house by himself with the technology that was avaiable back then.
You sir, get my vote because you mentioned Antonie van Leeuwenhoek!
"microbiology is a very big field" just sounds too funny I can't
There is a hostpital in Amsterdam that is called: Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek-hospital. It's specialized in the diagnosis, treatment and scientific research of cancer.
As a dutch person i can certainly say that it is true that as a finishing touch god did create the dutch.
Yup. Look at how the Dutch have been creating and building land from the water .... the province of Flevoland is the *largest* land reclamation project in history. Then, talk about WI-FI, semi-conductor chips and building the largest lock complexes in the world at Terneuzen and IJsselmuiden.
The Celcius scale was invented by Anders Celsius from Sweden - but he did it the other way around 100C for the freezing point of water and 0C for the boiling temperature. The scale was "turned around" by Carl von Linne - the change was made after the death of Anders Celcius. Centigrade or Celsius became the norm because it sub-divided the temperature between freezing and boiling water in 100 pieces (centi-grade)
Well then: the temperature points you mention are exactly 0 and 100 degrees celsius, which is named after a Swedish inventor, Anders Celsius. The Fahrenheit scale actually uses the human body temperature at 100F and the freezing point of some crazy concoction thrown together by our man Fahrenheit. Or so says Wiki.
(the term centigrade was used briefly and stems from the word for one hundred (centum/centi) and 'steps' (gradus/grade). Which is the term used by Americans until this day, but the official term is Celsius, since 1948. Again according to Wiki.
We use Celsius because that is what the SI metric system uses globally.
Wasn't it Napoleon Bonaparte that forced The Netherlands to use the SI system, just like with the meter and liter?
Wiki is mistaken saying Americans use the term centigrade. At least colloquially, I’ve only ever heard the term centigrade once or twice.
@@annaaquitaine4225 I stand corrected on that point. Probably my perspective then, or too much tv.
@@annaaquitaine4225 When referring to temperature in the Celsius scale, Americans say "Centigrade." Of course most Americans (except in science) use Fahrenheit.
@@OverMotoren No, you were correct in the specific sense that when referring to the Celsius system, Americans say "Centigrade." The catch being that most Americans use Fahrenheit.
what I get from the Fahrenheit thing is that is was the same as Celsius but with a different name, because the measurement was water-based.
Some other interesting Dutch inventions (source: Wikipedia):
- Kolf (the forerunner of golf as we know it today) (13th century)
- Figure skating and speed skating (15th -17th century)
- Magic lantern (first practical image projector; the forerunner of modern slide projector) (1659)
- First country to use a National Anthem (16th century)
- The Olympic Flame (early 20th century)
- Meat slicer (1898)
- Yacht (1580s)
The magic lantern was also the forerunner of the movie projector!
Modern capitalism 16-17th century till now
Oh Nijntje brings back memories. My mom has all the Dutch Nijntje books and read them to me and my siblings when we were young. Haven't heard or read them in 35 years or so but remember that Nijntje in de speeltuin was my favorite.
Op een dag zei vader Pluis wij gaan met kleine Nijn, een dagje naar de speeltuin toe hoi-hoi, riep Nijn, wat fijn. Ze gingen met de auto want de speeltuin was heel ver maar na een uur zei vader pluis ziezo nu zijn wij er.
Hi Casey. Even being Dutch myself, I didn't know that some of the things you mentioned, were actually Dutch inventions. So thank you for setting me straight!
Now as for your Celsius/Fahrenheit question. Unlike the Fahrenheit temperature scale, the Celsius scale is perfectly integrated and defined in the SI System of Units (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units), which has many advantages over the Imperial system that basically only the Americans still use.Actually, I must correct myself, and say that Kelvin is the SI temperature scale, not Celsius. However, converting between these two scales is just a matter of adding/subtracting a fixed number. Like most of the non-American world, we Dutch adopted the SI system, and thereby the Kelvin/Celsius scale. It seemed to make sense at the time Let Daniel Fahrenheit be damned :)
Fahrenheit used a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride to get his 'zero degree' point and the human body temperature as his '100 degree' point, and divided that in 100 equal units. Celcius(Sweden) use water/ice mixture for zero degree point and boiling water as 100 degree point and divided that in 100 equal units. The Kelvin scale (using the absolute zero - coldest possible as zero degrees but using the Celsius division making for example 20 degrees difference in Kelvin equal to 20 degrees difference in Celcius.
I have to correct this: he divided the scale in 96 equal units! The reason for this not to end in an odd subdivision of 5 units.
Also: stock trade and aspects of modern banking.
Together with the Lombards, who were present in the Low Countries since AD 1000.
And the Giro system to transfer money in value without transporting coins or paper money.
The clock is one of my favorite and we have a lot of inventions in navigation both old and new
the kaasschaaf wasn't a dutch invention and it's a tragedy.
i think we switched to celsius. because it's a better system. not by decree. unlike metric which was Napoleonic in origin, was deleted out of hatred for the french, then reinstated because it's kinda useful by Willem 3.
And Anders Celsius was Swedish
When I found out the Kaasschaaf wasn't a Dutch invention I was very sad. :(
Then I remembered a Dutchman invented the firehose and I was happy again.
@@JeeWeeD he was! But I'm thankful because Fahrenheit SUCKS 😂
Hahaha I had never seen one till I got to the netherlands and I'm also so disappointed that this is not the case
@@caseykilmore But the deli slicer *is* a Dutch invention, 19th century, Van Berkel.
The cassette (cassettebandje) was also an invention by Philips!
Also, the size of the cd was determined by Beethoven, because someone who helped develop it wanted the cd to be able to have Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc
The Orange Carrot too!
The very first personal audio, the music cassette, also was a Dutch (Phillips) invention.
Wifi also is a Dutch invention.
Dr antonius mathijsen. Gipsverband.
Another Dutch invention that is convenient and used often: the automatic gas pump nozzle stop when fueling up at the gas station. Besides Bluetooth also WiFi is a Dutch invention. Not only the CD and DVD, but also the music cassettes and electric razor where invented by Philips. Four-wheel drive in cars and speed camera’s to catch those cars speeding are Dutch inventions as well, the modern asphalt on the roads is one too. The most used program language in computers “Python” is another great one.
I love to see a video about the research done nowadays.
The stock exchange
Oranje carrots
Something with chocolate, very important for the taste but I forget what it exactly was.
The fire hose
Multinational (the VOC)
Gin
Four wheel drive.
The Dutch are good in applied science. The best example is Jan Tinbergen, he got the Nobel price for his statistical macro economic model.
The theory behind the model came from Keynes, who was shocked that Jan started to use the model in real life. It’s now used by every country. The Netherlands are still the only country in the world were you can study econometrics.
The process of getting cacoa powder out of the plant was a Dutch invention. They proceeded to make the first chocolate bar, but not as we know it today. The British then pretty much added sugar to the mix and changed the process of making the bars and those bars were pretty much the same a nowadays. But it all started with the dutch invention
Chocolate? Wasn't it Van Houten who invented to fermentate the cocoa? That is the most fundamental step in making chocolate. If you don't do that, nothing happens.
Philips also developed the stereo vinyl record.
Celsius is invented by Celsius.
I knew one of the CD developers personally. I met him when his mind had snapped. He lived out the rest of his life as an sickly alcoholic...
When you are curious to learn even more: "older" dutch streets for instance "Antony van Leeuwenhoeklaan" are named after people who did something worth mentioning. When curious: you can google some :). Not every street is named after an inventor though.
And: Philips first factory for gloeilampen (light bulbs) is now the Philips Museum in Eindhoven.
Sadly the name Phillips for apliances is sold to the Chineese not to long ago...
Let me have a go at a long list of important ones:
- Fire engine
- Gas street lighting
- Public Transport (tug boat)
- Saw mill (of huge importance to Dutch 17th century dominance of European trade)
- Pendulum clock
- Internal combustion engine (concept, with gun powder and 17th century precision engineering)
- Straight 6 engine, yes that's important for internal balance (Spyker)
- Four wheel drive (Spyker)
- CVT, the continuous variable transmission, still used today (DAF)
- The interrupt machine gun to shoot through airplane propellors (Fokker)
- The capacitator (Leiden Jar )
- De flessenlikker
- Gibbing and on ship processing
- Modern captialism (Central bank, public stock, stock exchange and a wide range of financial products
- Microbiology (right after the microscope and also by Tony Lioncorner.
- 'Modern' warfare, uniform weapons and clothes, drilling and trench warfare (Maurits of Nassau's military revolution)
- Civil rights, religious tolerance, upward social mobility, rehabilitation
- Women's voting rights (Friesland)
- International and maritime law (Grotius)
- The people's right to get rid of tyrants
- National anthem, national flag
- Orange carrot
- Dutch auction
- Speed camera
- The sandwich
- De appelboor
- Science fiction
- Marines (as in amphibious troops, not just soldiers on a ship)
Funny, the Dutch have more automotive innovations than bicycle innovations. Can't think of even one.
Of which flessnlikker is the most important one!
Haha yeah we made the carrot orange to honour the King and nowadays people only know carrots as being orange 😂
@@RanDMC31 Stadtholder of the Republic, certainly not the king.
Prins Maurits heeft ook een handje gehad in gerechtelijke moord - op Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt. En Willem III (King Billy for the Ulstermen) in de lynching van Johan en Cornelis de Witt.
@@DenUitvreter How how....Your 6 cylinder about Spyker, was not a Spyker engine! It was a Maybach engine!
This is great 'cause Im Dutch. And these invensions are pretty importand and groundbreaking ngl. Except for Nijntje which I knew was dutch, although I never expected it to be so well known in othe countries. It makes me feel so great, knowing that although being part of one of the smallest countries in the world, we still count.
We left the Fahrenheit temperature scale because there was another better and more logical system. We also adapt (and adopt) other systems very easily if we see a the benefit. In contrast to Americans who keep stoically using their their limp system, while the whole world is using another more logical system.
That's a funny way of saying "got invaded by the french and kinda agreed the new system was better eventually, like most of Europe".
Yes, capitalism sucks. What is better, remains to be seen, but do study Germany. There, right and left wing have been working together pretty good. Right is bad, left is not good enough either, you need something in between. The German example is very very good. The Dutch come close, but those bloody stupid right extremes keep thinking they are Gods. Populists fuck their own country without seeing what they do.
The automatic transmission for cars--still used in more than 65 cars; the snorkel for submarines (the dutch state was not interested, same for France, USA, GB) so the man sold it to germany; opium production (as payment for tea and spices) the use of windmills for paint production, as sawing mill, for grinding grains, as blacksmithing factory and more), the machine to produce "chips", the famous "stamppots"; most famous: boerenkool stampot, but also hete bliksem en hutspot; multiplication of tulip bulbs (and other bulbs) and I was made there....
We also brought technology and science to Japan and played a leading role in the US independence (among many other world changing things) but nobody gives us credit for those.
Yup we are a underappreciated nation
Yes, The US's founders recognized and appreciated the Dutch Republic's political organization and emphasis on individual and collective liberty. Along with appreciating Iroquois balances of power and democratic ways. Dutch Republic was a big influence on the founding of the USA. Also, with more liberty and tolerance and freedom from monarchy than nearly anywhere else in the world in the 1600's, the Dutch Republic was inspirational for many in other countries.
No. The Japanes brought it all from Holland. By stealing, imitation and copying foto’s. Like the automatic gear, in DAF cars, etc.
@@bolandbert I am talking waaaay before that, when their country was closed.
We were allowed to trade with them and we brought over tons of scientific books that allowed them to learn "modern sciences"
I'll bet you wouldn't want to take credit for apartheid.
@@wayne6512 seeing as that was introduced in 1945, 139(officially 131) years after it was last part of our Kingdom and 14 years after they became a independent nation, I think I will not take credit for it no.
My grandpa worked at Philips. Also another relative worked there told me that they invented the dvd already in the 80's!!! But they didnt want to release those discs yet because they found it too soon after the videorecorder
Witch the Video 2000 system didnt made it becouse of the cheaper vhs and betamax systems..
Love the video, luckily by far most inventions I recognize as being Dutch or linked to Dutch ingenuity. What I really miss however, is the Dutch concept of controlling water. I think without a doubt, even before the Deltaworks started after the flooding in 1953, it's clear that the Dutch mastered the skill of winning land from the sea.
Understanding and managing water should be in the top 5 of Dutch inventions. And so should other sea related activities be mentioned, offshore oil-winning, transportation systems, harbours, logistics as a concept. Might not all be purely Dutch inventions, but the Dutch laid a lot of ground work there and still do. Did you know it was Dutch ingenuity that cleared the Suez canal from that Ever Given containership that got stuck?
Everyboddy thinks that a donut is somthing of Amerika but it is Dutch , first made by Hus , witch was a bread making factory in Den Haag
THe answer to two questions you asked: The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. Fahrenheit is too complicated.
And the CVT, first with rubber braces later perfected with a steel band. DAF still keeps (in their save) a CVT steel band that has more than a million km's driven at a test.
The CD was ment to be smaller but a manager from Sony onley wanted to work with Philips if his favorit music piece could fit on the disc. And Miffy sounds a bit naughty to me.
Miffy betekent beledigd/nors, in engels..
Mini disk was the correct size?
@@djinthemixxX Oh no, just a bit smaller than a normal CD.
@@corneliusantonius3108 you are right, the CD was meant to be 10cm to contain about one hour. The romantic story is that a Sony executive wanted the 9th of Beethoven (74min) to fit and demanded enlarging to 12cm for Sony to back the format. The more realistic story is that Sony knew Philips had already set up a CD production line based on 10cm and wanted to win some catching up time, by Philips having to redevelop/manufacture the CD-productionline.
Celsius was 'discovered' by the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. In this system water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. Besides the US the UK still uses Fahrenheit, but this is becoming less often. You do hear weathermen saying 12 degrees Celsius to make it clear which scale is meant.
Don't forget this invention: het beschuitje met de inkeping.😁
And there is even a Nijntje book in Braille where the drawing of Nijntje (Miffy) is also raised, so you can feel it :-)
Missed the fact that carrots being all orange is a Dutch invention.
I got the joke but they actually come from Persia, go figure!
@@harveysmith100 Carrots yes but orange carrots did not exsist until the Dutch created them. It is the Dutch who made the carrots orange !!!!!! by inter mixing them so they became orange, as an honour to the Dutch Royal family (Van Oranje/From Orange)). And now whenever anyone on this entire planet thinks about a carrot they think about an orange one, a Dutch creation!!! Isn't that just bizarre?
@@hansolo2121 Well I will take that. Wonderful. I knew they used to be purple I think when they first came out of Persia.
@@harveysmith100 Yes you are right! Carrots originally were mostly purple or white. Now 99% of carrots around the world are orange.
@@hansolo2121 Excellent story, I love that.
The Dutch also invented the way to turn wind into a power to use. Of course they pumped the swamps empty with windmills, (go to Kinderdijk to see that today) but also famously used sawing mills to turn trees into planks used for building ships in the 17th century. This gave them a critical advantage in the number of ships they were able to build in a short time compared to other nations - specifically the British - sawing the planks by man power.
Oh everyone knows a Scotsman and his Dutch pal invented everything.
When I was growing up, Leeuwenhoek seemed really famous. People had no clue about the "animalcules" that surround us until Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see them. An American microbiologist of Dutch ancestry , Paul de Kruif, is famous for his 1926 book Microbe Hunters, which I checked out of a library in the 1950s. That must have been my introduction to Leeuwenhoek. The telescope did not reveal animals on the moon, but the microscope revealed an unknown world of miniature creatures.
Salient detail: one of the first images he drew when viewed in magnification was one of his own sperm cells.
You missed Patatje Oorlog! Telescope Schmeloscope. Ignoring the culinary arts here. The rest of the video was great, though!
Yep! Smashing together the best ingredients from Belgium and Indonesia!
And do not forget the Nassi bal and Bami blok.
And ´joppiesaus´!
I believe the Dutch had the first broadcast radio station too. On November 6, 1919 The first scheduled (pre-announced in the press) Dutch radio broadcast was made by Nederlandsche Radio Industrie station PCGG at The Hague, which began regular concerts broadcasts. This beats the Canadian station XWA (later CFCF) in Montreal began regular broadcasts on May 20, 1920.
To be fair, the submarine was probably invented way back in prehistory well before we invented floating boats.
😂
Could one breathe underwater with it, probably not.
Philips' first major invention was the cassette tape the compact music cassette, they shared the patent and every electronic company could make them. Their biggest mistake was the VCR a video recorder (cassette) that would play or record on 2 sides, they didn't share the patent and other companies made betamax (Sony) and VHS both only playable on 1 side. The Celsius temperature scale was invented by Anders Celsius from Sweden.
The Dutch also created The Netherlands ;-)
the First Industrial Area in the World is also found in the Netherlands , it is called "de Zaanstreek"
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek didn't invent the microscope. It already existed, what he did was perfect the lenses used in the microscope. He developed a technique to very precisely polish the lenses so they'd give way clearer views on the tiny things. His techniques were later also used to improve on the existing telescopes iirc.
I believe his improvements in lens polishing are also what improved eyeglasses. Which weren't that good at the time.
@7:20 I'm sorry to break it to you, but the temperature scale related to the freezing point and boiling point of water is Celsius. 0 degrees and 100 degrees, respectively. What the Fahrenheit scale is related to, I couldn't tell you, because it doesn't make a lick of sense to me. I know, for a rough conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit you multiply by 2 and add 40, but why that is, I've no idea.
As to why we switched to Celsius, I've no idea either, but I suspect it's something to do with better compatibility with the metric system, being based on a scale of 100 and multiples and fractions thereof.
I remember that Fahrenheit is based on human body temperature. Where 100 degrees is 37 degrees Celsius
Philips also invented the music cassette (at least the format/size that became most popular), and blu-ray.
And the fact that virtually all carrots are orange is also due to Dutch chauvinism :) And I believe Python (the programming language) was developed by a Dutch guy.
And Celcius was a Swede who came up with his own version of the temperature scale (around the middle of the 18th century, I think). Fahrenheit set his base (0 degrees) by putting his thermometer in a mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride (someone correct me if I’m wrong, I’m trying to remember this from a science class decades ago). He chose 32 (the melting point of ice) as his second measuring point, and his body temperature (96 degrees) was the next reference point. This way he could divide his “ruler” in half six times (between 32 and 96) and get intervals of 1 degree. Celcius just started a 0 when ice started to melt and set his 100 mark to the boiling point of water, so he just came up with a different scale.
The cassette tdk Philips still love it to play🚂
Actually, Celcius defined 100 degrees to be the freezing point and 0 degrees to be the boiling point. The scale was reverse, to prevent minus numbers. He also called it a centigrade scale, not named after himself. Only after he died, the agency of standards chose his name out of a few comparable candidates who all had developed a similar scale, but Celcius had been the one who had developed the best means for defining the methods to determine the right temperature.
Hyperboloid shaped cooling towers can be found all over the world. The design was patented in 1918 to Frederik van Iterson and Gerard Kuypers of the Dutch States Mine (DSM). DSM still exist but is not state owned anymore and a multinational in bioscience, health and nutritions.